re: #80 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

So why is a major senior to a lieutenant but a lieutenant general senior to a major general?

(thought you’d never ask)

So it seems that the rank of “Major General” was once styled as “Sergeant Major General”, whereby a sergeant major is inferior in rank to a lieutenant.

I am the very model of a modern military insignia nerd…

Did you notice that the ranks memo is on Department of the Air Force letterhead?